Hey, what's up, motivators taren here.
Many people get into running with the goal of losing weight.
It's great.
Good for you, wanting to make an improvement in your
life and become a better version of yourself.
Unfortunately,
many people get into running to lose weight, see initial progress,
then and plateau, get discouraged and give it up because it isn't working.
Fortunately, this isn't a problem with you.
It's a problem with what you've been told about running for weight loss.
Today we're going to explain why this happens and how you can avoid it,
reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be.
My name is Terry Gazelle.
In my twenty s, I was overweight,
unfulfilled, and couldn't even run to the end of the block.
Over the following years, I found endurance sports, lost £65,
won age groups, race world championships, broke records, and trained and learned
from some of the best athletes and coaches in the world.
You too can use endurance sports to change
your life and accomplish your fitness goals.
You just need a system.
A system that's meant for us amateurs
who want to be our best while feeling our strongest and healthiest.
My company, Motive, offers that system,
and I want to share some of the tips from it today.
When most people get into running to lose
weight, they go all in working really hard.
This motivation is great.
This is what you need.
But there comes a point where people work too hard and derail their own progress.
The hard work actually becomes what slows the weight loss down to a crawl.
What's happened is that magazines, fitness influencers and online pundits
want you to believe that all you have to do is work hard and that in a few short
months you can have the body of your dreams.
This just isn't the case.
If you've ever seen The Biggest Loser TV
show, you know how hard the contestants on that show work to lose their weight.
They lose hundreds of pounds by the end of the show.
Most of them look amazing, and it's fantastic to see their lives change.
Unfortunately, the show doesn't tell us the whole story.
Most of those contestants gain that weight back, but it's not their fault.
There was actually a study done about 14 of the Biggest Loser contestants who had
lost an average of £128 in the show, but they gained back £90 in the years after.
Why was this?
Well, the extreme hard work done while
shooting the show caused the contestants metabolisms to slow down so significantly
that the people couldn't possibly continue to be in a calorie deficit or even eat
a maintenance level of calories after the show.
In fact, even six years after the show aired, the contestants metabolisms were
still so in the tank that even maintaining weight was almost impossible.
So the weight came back on.
It was simply a case of too much weight loss too fast, which is the same thing
that happens to a lot of weight loss focused runners.
So then, what's the right way to approach running for weight loss?
First, show up with that same willingness to work hard.
You're going to need that motivation to make a big change in your life.
Second, don't make the goal weight loss.
This will lead to working too hard and eating too little.
Third, set a goal of finishing a running race that actually intimidates you.
This will make the goal you're seeking an external focus.
External goals are much easier to stay
motivated for, and they're much more likely to be reached than superficial
goals like weight loss or even a race time.
Fourth, get a proper training plan to prepare for the race correctly.
This will make sure you're performing your training in a balanced way.
Following a proper training plan to reach
a goal will keep you motivated, focus your mind on healthy goals,
and will naturally build good habits that inadvertently will result in weight loss.
So instead of running for the sake
of weight loss, which very often leads to undereating, overtraining and injury,
running for the sake of an external goal will lead to eating better,
sleeping better, and recovering really well to accomplish the race.
You're less likely to stay out drinking at night.
You're less likely to have a bad meal because you know that you need to nourish
your body to either prepare for a run or recover from a run.
You'll naturally be thirsty,
so you'll drink more water and want to stay hydrated.
You'll be running a lot at a low
intensity, making your body more metabolically fit, and running at a very
high intensity, making your body stronger, faster, and have a higher Vo two max so
that you're able to process oxygen and function day to day much, much better.
Your goals for weight loss will happen on their own.
You'll almost definitely stay motivated
throughout the entire process, and you'll continue on with more races
afterwards, developing a healthy lifestyle,
not just being on a weight loss program that's temporary.
You'll become a healthier, more confident version of yourself
by finishing that race just months after that distance intimidated you.
You'll get all the weight loss you want
with all the bonuses of becoming an age group athlete.
Personally, I can say that this works really well myself because I experienced
weight fluctuations going up and down for years.
And it wasn't until I started taking on endurance races that the weight loss
stuck and it all of a sudden started happening on its own without me even
having to count calories or think about what I had burned that day.
The weight loss became easy and the lifestyle became the focus
and what I could possibly accomplish became the goal.
Now, if you want a training plan that is
going to help with that, we will put a link in the description
below to the training plans that we have in our app that are specifically designed
for real people who want to accomplish amazing things.
It has training plans, plans that will be suited to your unique
abilities with the goals that you have in mind.
And if you want to go a step further into running weight loss dues and don'ts,
check out the video that we did right over there.
And I hope you found this helpful later. Motivators.